What was the name of the Confederate general nicknamed “stonewall”?
T.J. Jackson
100
Who was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
Jefferson Davis
100
Who was the influential black nicknamed “Moses” that helped slaves escape from slavery?
Harriet Tubman
100
In what ocean did the war at sea of the Civil War take place?
Atlantic
200
Who won the first battle of Bull Run?
The Confederates
200
What side was general Robert E. Lee fighting for?
The Confederates
200
Which famous Abraham Lincoln speech started off with "Four score and seven years ago?"
The Gettysburg Address
200
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
A law that required runaway slaves in the North to be returned to their owners.
200
What book was influential to the start of the Civil War?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
300
What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
The battle of Gettysburg with 51,112 casualties on July 1-3 1863.
300
What Civil War general later became president?
Ulysses S. Grant
300
Who killed Abraham Lincoln and where?
John Wilkes Booth at the Ford theater in Washington D.C.
300
What famous black abolitionist leader said "Without a struggle, there can be no progress?"
Frederick Douglass
300
What is popular sovereignty?
The idea brought up by the south that states have the right to govern themselves.
400
What was the bloodiest day of the Civil War?
September 17, 1862 at the battle of Antietam with about 23,000 casualties.
400
What Union general was fired because he refused to fight?
General McClellan
400
What do they call the document that claimed all slaves of the rebel states free?
Emancipation Proclamation
400
What slave preacher created a slave revolt killing 55 white people?
Nat Turner
400
Who was the only civilian to fight in the battle of Gettysburg?
John Burns a 70 year old man and veteran of the war of 1812 who was watching the battle, got bored of watching so he picked up his rifle and joined on to fight for the union.
500
What was the Anaconda Plan?
It was a plan proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott to surround the southern forces from all sides. It was named the Anaconda Plan because it was like the Union was suffocating the Southern military to death.
500
What did Ulysses S. Grant's friends call him?
"Sam" Grant because he was as patriotic as "Uncle Sam."
500
Who became president after Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
500
What did union officers call slaves who ran away from slavery to the union camps?
Contrabands
500
What is "sloosh"?
Something the southern soldiers ate where they swirled cornmeal in a pan of bacon grease and then cooked it over the campfire on a ramrod.